Patent 10484371 was granted and assigned to Seagate Technology on November, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A computing device may accumulate behavior parameters of a controller or media with an authentication module of the controller prior to generating a unique signature with the authentication module. The unique signature can then be verified responsive to an initialization command from a host device before data is transferred by the controller between the host device and the media in response to the controller issuing at least one data access command.